What are good songs to test speakers? Any suggestions?

[gferrell]

Songs that are full range and have tight punchy bass. Well recorded songs. What do you use? Just looking for suggestions.

[pathfindermwd]

Songs that are full range and have tight punchy bass. Well recorded songs. What do you use? Just looking for suggestions.

Mark Knopfler or anything on Santana's Shaman CD. Also like electronic stuff like Bassnectar- Timestrech for a mix of bass and highs.

Course, it just depends on what you like to listen to.

[SEAWOLF97]

Beatles "Love" ...sonics are outstanding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(The_Beatles_album)

Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by The Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period.

she's so heavy

[RedCoat23]

Buena Vista Social Club - one of the best recordings I've ever heard....catchy tunes too!

[Hoerninger]

What about female voices?
___________
Peter

[hjames]

Janis Ian - Breaking Silence (Harman used it in their sound trailer last year, its quite good)

Jennifer Warner - Famous Blue Raincoat

Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Jaco and Matheny and more as the band!!

just to name 3 as a start ...

What about female voices? ___________ Peter

[4313B]

I cheated and cut and pasted the Classic Albums list

The Band - The Band (1969)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)
Phil Collins - Face Value (1981)
Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (see Classic Albums: Deep Purple - The Making of Machine Head) (1972)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
Duran Duran - Rio (1982)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
Peter Gabriel - So (1986)
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun and American Beauty (see Anthem to Beauty) (1968/1970)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (see Classic Albums: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast) (1982)
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Judas Priest - British Steel (1980)
John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Metallica - Metallica ("The Black Album") (see Classic Albums: Metallica - Metallica) (1991)
Motörhead - Ace of Spades (1980)
Nirvana - Nevermind (see Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind) (1991)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes (1979)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, (see Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon) (1973)
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
Queen - A Night at the Opera (1975)
Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
Rush - 2112 and Moving Pictures (1976/1981)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks (1977)
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)
Simply Red - Stars (1991)
Steely Dan - Aja (1977)
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
The Wailers - Catch a Fire (1973)
The Who - Who's Next (1971)
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') / Over-Nite Sensation (1974/1973)

[dr_gallup]

My first two choices have not made the list so far:

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture - the original Telarc pressing, make sure you have a turntable capable of handling the extreme excursions
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Welcome to the Machine will test your bass and David Gilmor's guitar will test the rest.

[Aaron]

These two stood out to me as having deep natural sounding bass...and just being loads of fun to listen to and watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9poWKKpbU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s5ev0i8tM

[4313B]

Janis Ian - Breaking Silence (Harman used it in their sound trailer last year, its quite good)

Jennifer Warner - Famous Blue Raincoat

Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Jaco and Matheny and more as the band!!

just to name 3 as a start ...

Definitely!


Perhaps:

Annie Haslam

Karen Carpenter

Helen Rogers on anything from Paul Hardcastle

Emmy Rossum (her opera voice)

[Odd]

Ane Brun - It All Starts With One

Ane Brun Wikipedia

Great recording, great sound, great songs.

[Krunchy]

+ 1 Mark Knopfler, his solos stuff is so well recorded.
Steely Dan /& Donald Fagen's solo.
The police
Sade - for females.

[pathfindermwd]

Karen Carpenter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG0_-uiNBjo


Well, if we're going to be Totally Lame!

How about Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face? You can hear the tape hiss pretty well when it begins but your focus quickly turns to the vocals. One of the most lifelike recordings I've ever heard. What a bass line too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFrGbuUqnQ

[4313B]

Well, if we're going to be Totally Lame!

Fine...

Justin Bieber -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0hfg1htnM4

This one is better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxjNpkR6kcg

[staccatiss]

Here are some songs I use:

"Needed Time" - Eric Bibb (Opus 3 recorded)
"Private Investigations" - Dire Straits
"Stimela" - xxx
"The girl in the other room" - Diana Krall
"When I feel the sea beneath my soul" - Tiny Island (Opus 3 recorded)
"Tiden bara gaar" - Opus 3
"Hotel California (live)" - high rez version
"Introduction" by Marcus Miller
"The beat hotel" - Alan Taylor
"Radioactivety" - Kraftwerk
"Stop those bells (live)" - Sarah K
"If this isn´t jazz" - Patricia Barber
"Moanin'" - Sly Dunbar (Telarc)
"Army of me" - Bjork
"Poor boy" - Michael Ruff (Sheffield Lab version)
"Big Drum_Small World -12- Drummer's Reel" - Dhol Foundation



/Staccatiss